Connect Soda to Amazon Athena

Access configuration details to connect Soda to an Athena data source.

For Soda to run quality scans on your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source. To learn how to set up Soda and configure it to connect to your data sources, see Get started.

Connection configuration reference

Install package: soda-athena

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: athena
  access_key_id: kk9gDU6800xxxx
  secret_access_key: 88f&eeTuT47xxxx
  region_name: eu-west-1
  staging_dir: s3://s3-results-bucket/output/
  schema: public

Property	Required	Notes
type	required	Identify the type of data source for Soda.
access_key_id	required 1	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. See Manage access keys for IAM users.
secret_access_key	required 1	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. See Manage access keys for IAM users.
region_name	optional	The endpoint your AWS account uses. Refer to Amazon Athena endpoints and quotas.
role_arn	optional 1	Specify role to use for authentication and authorization.
staging_dir	required	Identify the Amazon S3 Staging Directory (the Query Result Location in AWS); see Specifying a query result location
schema	required	Identify the schema in the data source in which your tables exist.
catalog	optional	Identify the name of the Data Source, also referred to as a Catalog. The default value is awsdatacatalog.
work_group	optional	Identify a non-default workgroup in your region. In your Athena console, access your current workgroup in the Workgroup option on the upper right. Read more about Athena Workgroups.
session_token	optional	Add a session Token to use for authentication and authorization.
profile_name	optional	Specify the profile Name from local AWS configuration to use for authentication and authorization.

Test the data source connection

To confirm that you have correctly configured the connection details for the data source(s) in your configuration YAML file, use the test-connection command. If you wish, add a -V option to the command to returns results in verbose mode in the CLI.

soda test-connection -d my_datasource -c configuration.yml -V

Supported data types

Category	Data type
text	CHAR, VARCHAR, STRING
number	TINYINT, SMALLINT, INT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DOUBLE, FLOAT, DECIMAL
time	DATE, TIMESTAMP